The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 20
He held it up and looked admiringly at its well-shaped blade and jewelled handle.
Who acts: smithy · What happens: hold up, look, shape, jewell · To what, where: sword, handle
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smithy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 held | nsubj |
| 2 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 held | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 held | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 looked | cc |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 held | conj |
| 7 | admiringly | admiringly | ADV | _ | 6 looked | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 blade | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 blade | nmod:poss |
| 10 | well | well | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shaped | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 well | punct |
| 12 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 blade | amod |
| 13 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 jewelled | cc |
| 15 | jewelled | jewell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 held | conj |
| 16 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 jewelled | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold up | past | smithy | sword | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | smithy not said here | at sword's shaped blade; admiringly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at blade=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 4 | jewell | past | smithy not said here | handle | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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